Pizarro: Target Summer Pops finds new home on San Jose State campus

It'll be easy to find good music in downtown San Jose this weekend, if you're looking in the right place. Target Summer Pops -- Symphony Silicon Valley's amazing set of free outdoor concerts -- kicks off Saturday in a new spot on San Jose State's campus.

Construction on the San Carlos Street pedestrian mall forced the concerts to move to the equally scenic lawn in front of San Jose State's iconic Tower Hall. And opening night gets off to a perfect start with "Sounds of Summer," featuring selections from Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" and Piazolla's "Four Seasons of Buenos Aires."

Other concerts will feature music from movie Westerns and the "Star Wars" series, plus a tribute to Frank Sinatra and a concert by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. (Get the full schedule at www.symphonysiliconvalley.org.) And don't forget that there's free ice cream with the two family concerts on Sundays.

BLAST FROM THE PAST: We just can't get enough of the past, whether it's the 1960s of "Mad Men" or the Day-Glo '80s in movies like "Hot Tub Time Machine." Well, the Flapper Era makes a comeback Friday at RetroPOP!, an evening of 1920s fashion, music and dance at the Landmark Ballroom at the historic San Jose Woman's Club. (Given that the building is more than a century old, there were probably real flappers gracing its dance floor back in the '20s.)

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A fashion show -- with models put together by Studio Glam, Park Place Vintage and Black Cat Collective -- will highlight the decade's attire. There will be live music and DJ Litman will be spinning tunes from the era, though I haven't heard if he'll be bringing scratchy phonograph records and a Victrola.

POTTY HUMOR: David Cohen noticed the headline about Sunday's A's win, "Colon leaves Angels with queasy feeling," and wondered if it was intentional humor on the writer's part. More like "intestinal humor," I'd say.

CONSTANT OPTIMISM: San Jose City Councilman Pete Constant has a personalized license plate that refers to his council district. I asked him what he was going to do in January 2015, when he was termed out. Without missing a beat, he said, "I'm hoping to trade it in for one that says, 'CSJ MYR.' "